Erik Halvar Bertil Björk (22 September 1928 – 12 November 2000) was a Swedish

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. He worked at the

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal pop ...

City Theatre from 1962 till 1986, but also made many substantial film- and TV-roles; for example, he acted in ''

Autumn Sonata ''Autumn Sonata'' ( sv, Höstsonaten, link=no) is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman (in her final film role), Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. Its plot follows a celebrated classical pianist and he ...

'' (1978) and '' Sunday's Children'' (1992) by Ingmar Bergman and '' The Emigrants'' (1971) and ''

The New Land ''The New Land'' ( sv, Nybyggarna) is a 1972 Swedish film directed and co-written by Jan Troell and starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Allan Edwall, Monica Zetterlund, and Pierre Lindstedt. It and its 1971 predecessor, ''The Emi ...

'' (1972) by

Jan Troell Jan Gustaf Troell (born 23 July 1931) is a Swedish writer-director, and cinematographer. His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with ...

. Björk won the Best Actor at the 5th Guldbagge Awards for his performance in the Yngve Gamlin film '' Badarna'' (1968). He died of

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malign ...

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* 1928 births 2000 deaths Swedish male film actors Swedish male stage actors Swedish male television actors Best Actor Guldbagge Award winners 20th-century Swedish male actors Deaths from lung cancer in Sweden People from Ragunda Municipality {{Sweden-actor-stub